Anthony Elliott: 20 books
by Anthony Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
More than ten years on from its original publication, Concepts of the Self still mesmerizes with its insight, comprehensiveness and critique of debates over the self in the social sciences and humanities. Anthony Elliott has written a new preface to this third edition to address some of the most recent...
Social Theory Since Freud
Traversing Social Imaginaries
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
In this compelling book, Anthony Elliott traces the rise of psychoanalysis from the Frankfurt School to postmodernism. Examining how pathbreaking theorists such as Adorno, Marcuse, Lacan and Lyotard have deployed psychoanalysis to politicise issues such as desire, sexuality, repression and identity,...
The Culture of AI
Everyday Life and the Digital Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
In this ground-breaking book, Cambridge-trained sociologist Anthony Elliott argues that much of what passes for conventional wisdom about artificial intelligence is either ill-considered or plain wrong. The reason? The AI revolution is not so much about cyborgs and super-robots in the future, but...
Identity Troubles
An introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
In our turbulent world of global flows and digital transformations pervasive identity crises and self-reinvention have become increasingly central to everyday life. In this fascinating book, Anthony Elliott shows how global transformations – the new electronic economy, digital worlds, biotechnologies...
by Anthony Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Ours is the era of ‘reinvention’. From psychotherapy to life coaching, from self-help manuals to cosmetic surgery, and from corporate rebranding to urban redesign: the art of reinvention is inextricably interwoven with the lure of the next frontier, the breakthrough to the next boundary – especially...
by Anthony Elliott, John Urry
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
How should we understand the personal and social impacts of complex mobility systems? Can lifestyles based around intensive travel, transport and tourism be maintained in the 21st century? What possibility post-carbon lifestyles?
In this provocative study of "life on the move", Anthony...
Making the Cut
How Cosmetic Surgery is Transforming Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2008
From London to New York, Madrid to Melbourne, Singapore to Tehran, the demand for cosmetic surgery is soaring. Botox injections, collagen fillers, breast implants, microdermabrasion, mini face-lifts: extreme reinvention is all the rage. For better or worse, ours is the era of cosmetic surgical culture.
In...
by Anthony Elliott, Charles Lemert
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
In this comprehensive, stylish and accessible introduction to contemporary social theory, Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert examine the major theoretical traditions from the Frankfurt School to globalization and beyond. When first published, the book’s wide range set new standards for introductory...
Contemporary Social Theory
An introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
In this comprehensive, stylish and accessible introduction to contemporary social theory, Anthony Elliott examines the major social theoretical traditions. The first edition set new standards for introductory textbooks, such was the far-reaching sweep of social theorists discussed – including Theodor...
by Anthony Elliott, Bryan S. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
‘Society' is one of the most frequently used words in public life; it is also a foundational term in the social sciences. In our own time, however, the idea has never been so much in dispute and so little understood. For some critics, society is simply too consensual for a world of intensive discord....
Subject to Ourselves
An Introduction to Freud, Psychoanalysis, and Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The revised edition of Subject to Ourselves, a lively and provocative book that was a leader on its topic in England, uses psychoanalytic theory as the basis for a fresh reassessment of the nature of modernity and postmodernism. Analyzing changing experiences of selfhood, desire, interpersonal relations,...
Critical Visions
New Directions in Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Originally published in 2003, Critical Visions develops a wide-ranging analysis of key issues and debates in contemporary social theory. Drawing social theory, cultural studies, and psychoanalysis together in a bold configuration, the book challenges the widespread view that social theory seems to...
Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition
Self and Society from Freud to Kristeva
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
Originally published in 1999 Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition is a benchmark critique of Freudian theory in which a dialogue between the Frankfurt School, the Lacanian tradition and post-Lacanian developments in critical and feminist theory is developed. Considering afresh the relations...
Another's Country
Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Cultural Interactions in the Southern Colonies
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
The 18th-century South was a true melting pot, bringing together colonists from England, France, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, and other locations, in addition to African slaves—all of whom shared in the experiences of adapting to a new environment and interacting with American Indians. The shared...
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